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Topic: Render elements question (Read 622 times)

Can anyone tell me how to create a render element with only trees? Bonus points if you can tell me how to do it for individual tree and plant types. I still want to generate all the standard render element passes, I just want to be able to isolate the foliage and objects.

Put your objects into a separate object group and use the Layers functionality in the Render Layer node. You can then set visibility per-group. You will have to do separate renders for each separate group of objects you want though.

Thanks for your reply Oshyan. Although I still seem to be getting something wrong. I want to isolate a tree type and have everything else as a holdout, but when I group the tree type, other objects (a foreground bush in this example) is rendered as well. I have tried doing it two ways, one with just the tree in a group, and one with the tree in group and the bush in it's own group set to holdout. What am I doing wrong?

Hmm, I believe holdout may currently be broken. We will be looking into this and addressing it ASAP if that is indeed the case. It would be available in a free 4.1 update, though I can't give a specific date yet. Sorry about that!